Unpublished Guidelines Show The DHS Is Steering States Away From Insecure Internet Voting Options

Unpublished Guidelines Show The DHS Is Steering States Away From Insecure Internet Voting Options

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200509/12485744463/unpublished-guidelines-show-dhs-is-steering-states-away-insecure-internet-voting-options.shtml

The DHS has come out against internet voting. Sort of.

If there's anything less secure than electronic voting, it's internet voting. The temptation is to provide voters with more options if the pandemic continues to keep voters home. But guidelines from the DHS's redundantly-named Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) say this risks the integrity of those votes by opening them up to attackers.

Unpublished Guidelines Show The DHS Is Steering States Away From Insecure Internet Voting Options

May 12, 2020, 7:17pm UTC
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200509/12485744463/unpublished-guidelines-show-dhs-is-steering-states-away-insecure-internet-voting-options.shtml > The DHS has come out against internet voting. Sort of. > If there's anything less secure than electronic voting, it's internet voting. The temptation is to provide voters with more options if the pandemic continues to keep voters home. But guidelines from the DHS's redundantly-named Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) say this risks the integrity of those votes by opening them up to attackers.